[hashcash] Re: Mutt and hashcash

That sounds like a quite portable way to do this, should work for many
unix mailers.

I'd be interested to try using it myself.  My only complication is I am
using mutt on a machine where I am not root, and also I am not sure how
long a process left running (the daemon) would last by itself.  Well in
my case so far I was thinking of generating smaller stamps (eg 20 bits),
so probably that wouldn't matter too much.  And I guess the daemon just
leaves things in the queue if it hasn't processed them fully.

Please send the code!  Can you put it on the web?  (eg. As alpha/beta if
you're still changing it).

Adam

Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:
> I wrote a stand-in for sendmail that I can call from Mutt to add hashcash
> to my outgoing mail.  It does a bit more than just that, though.
> 
> The computer I use for email is a modest 400MHz.  Computing 26 bits of
> hashcash (my chosen default) takes nearly ten minutes.
> 
> Given that, my filter is actually two programs.  One acts like sendmail for
> Mutt and merely writes Mutt's message to a queue.  The other program is a
> daemon that watches that queue and does the work of adding hashcash before
> sending it to the real sendmail.

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